Insurance audits yielding big returnsBATON ROUGE, LA - Audits of life insurance company policies have uncovered more than $31 million in unclaimed property for beneficiaries in the past eight years, State Treasurer John Kennedy announ...

Laws on secondhand smoke and DWI make state saferMost of the more than two dozen new Louisiana laws that went into effect on the first day of 2015 were relatively minor statutes that will have little impact on people’s lives, but some of the laws...

Candidates important in Governor’s race tooWhile we’re all certainly interested in who will be a candidate for governor this fall, the more important question may be who isn’t running. We won’t have a definitive answer until Sept. 10 at 4:3...

Keystone fight is about much moreBy Phil Kerpen The House is set to vote on the Keystone XL pipeline as their first order of business in the new Congress — and this time the newly-elected Senate is expected to have enough votes to...

Letter to the Editor:Dear Editor: Thank you seems so inadequate but I do thank all the City workers for the best job they have ever accomplished this Christmas season. Countless hours were spent completing endless jobs...

Jindal spells out BESE board election processGov. Bobby Jindal announced Monday the special election date for the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the temporary appointment of Mary Johnson Harris. Harris will replace Walt...